Long-term data could help officials see whether air pollution is infiltrating pristine areasCome Friday, local officials will have another tool -- a nondescript gray, plastic box adorned with a ...

The troposphere comprises the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere, stretching from the planet’s surface to a little over eight miles into the sky. It also contains about 10% of the ozone in the ...

The Antarctic ozone hole has shrunk to its smallest and shortest-lived size since 2019, offering encouraging evidence that ...

Measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite show that this year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the biggest on record. The hole, which is what scientists call an ‘ozone depleting ...

Air quality, as measured by average ground-level ozone emissions, has improved considerably in Clark County from as recently as 2008 but worsened enough over the recent past that county officials have ...

Scientists have reported that the ozone hole over Earth's southern pole spans nearly 20 million square kilometers this year, almost three times the size of the contiguous United States, while ...

This season’s Antarctic ozone hole has swollen to an area of ten million square kilometres from mid-August – approximately the same size as Europe and still expanding. It is expected to reach maximum ...

The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the last 20 years, according to data from NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ...